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হাবেসি

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Middle Bengali

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Classical Persian حبشی (habašī, Abyssinian; Negro; black slave), from Arabic حَبَشِيّ (ḥabašiyy).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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হাবেসি (hābeśi)

  1. an Abyssinian

Descendants

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  • Bengali: হাবশি (habośi)

Further reading

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  • Sen, Sukumar (1971) An Etymological Dictionary of Bengali: c. 1000-1800 A.D.[1], volume 922, Calcutta: Eastern Publishers.